Cook several small jacket poatatoes and cut them in half. scoop out the soft poatoe from the inside and use in another dish. Leave a generaous amount on the skins though! Its mainly so that you have a slight hollow.

Fill the hollowed out skins with chilli con carny or something of the equivalent. Add a dolop of sour creme on top and some grated cheese. Place under a grill until the cheese is melted.

Cook several small jacket poatatoes and cut them in half. scoop out the soft poatoe from the inside and place in a mixing bowl. Leave a generaous amount on the skins though! Its mainly so that you have a slight hollow.

Chop up some smoked bacon or ham and mix these in with the potato in the bowl. Scoop this mix back into the skins and grate cheese ontop.

3) Start frying them while you open a tin of red kidney beans (or drain off some you’ve been soaking overnight) and a tin of sweetcorn into a colander, and rinse them under the tap to get all the slime off

4) Dump the rinsed and drained beans and sweetcorn in with the onions

5) Turn the heat up high, and keep stirring them. You want the onions to be nicely caramelising, and the beans and corns to start going a bit brown and slightly chewy (but not burning or going really tough). Some of the beans might lose their skins in this process; that means you’re nearly ready.

6) Put some cooked pasta (what, you didn’t start making the pasta in step 1? Ooops.) into a large shallow baking dish

7) Pour the fried beans stuff over it and spread it out

8)Smother in grated goat’s cheese

9) Bake in a pre-heated 200C oven (you remembered to turn the oven on at the start, didn’t you? Oh good) for 30 minutes or so

Cook several small jacket poatatoes and cut them in half. scoop out the soft poatoe from the inside and use for another dish such as mash. Leave a generaous amount on the skins though! Its mainly so that you have a slight hollow.

Crate cheese onto them and place under a medium grill until the cheese is melted.

Placing cream cheese benieth the grated cheese can have a lovely effect or alternatively just put cottage cheese in.

Robert Burns was a big litrature dude (he wrote Auld Lang Syne)and my husbands aunt always dissappears off for Burns night in January.

I decided this warrented a post as this is a dinner to celebrate the poets life and works and is held around his birthday the 25th of January. This year it is the 250th anniversary and there are year long events going on. Furthure info on this can be found at Home Coming Scoutland.

Then, horn for horn, they stretch an’ strive:
Deil tak the hindmaist! on they drive,
Till a’ their weel-swall’d kytes belyve,
Are bent like drums;
Then auld Guidman, maist like to rive,
“Bethankit” hums.

Is there that o’re his French ragout
Or olio that wad staw a sow,
Or fricassee wad mak her spew
Wi’ perfect scunner,
Looks down wi’ sneering, scornfu’ view
On sic a dinner?

Poor devil! see him ower his trash,
As feckless as a wither’d rash,
His spindle shank, a guid whip-lash,
His nieve a nit;
Thro’ bloody flood or field to dash,
O how unfit!